Persecution Foretold

⁹ “As for yourselves, beware, for they will hand you over to councils, and you will be beaten in synagogues, and you will stand before governors and kings because of me, as a testimony to them.^(A)

⁸ The one who plants and the one who waters have one purpose, and each will receive wages according to their own labor.^(A)

³² But recall those earlier days when, after you had been enlightened, you endured a hard struggle with sufferings,^(A)